The video and the badge: what Arkansas owes Alisa Hackett
A traffic stop is not a forfeiture of rights. When the record is on video, accountability is not a favour — it is the law.
Read the essay → · 2 September 2026 · Also: a family’s right to answers — the Nolan Wells case →Five standing desks. Each one covers ground the writer has worked from years of reading the law that sits underneath the news.
Justice Watch
Police accountability, human rights, and the duty of the state when a life is taken or a body is harmed — the law that is supposed to answer, read against the cases in the news.
Graham v. Connor, qualified immunity, and why the camera changed what can be denied but not yet what can be excused. 2 Sep 2026
The international-law duty to investigate a death effectively, independently and in the open — and why “undetermined” is not an answer. 2 Sep 2026
The Money Trail
Anti-money-laundering and financial crime. Where the world’s money hides, which statutes follow it, and how enforcement actually works — the statutes that follow the money, and how enforcement actually works.
Know your customer, keep the records, report suspicion — the three duties of the 2009 Act, in plain speech. 1 Sep 2026
Brief notes on FATF standards and what compliance means for small states.
Code & Statute
Cybercrime and AI governance. The law catching up with the machine — the law catching up with the machine, read plainly.
What the 2018 statute criminalises, who it protects, and three habits that keep a phone-holder on the right side of it. 1 Sep 2026
AI governance frameworks in plain terms — who is regulated, for what, by whom.
The Laws of War
Briefs on the law of armed conflict. What the Geneva framework actually says about the conflicts in the news — distinctions, protections, and the words that get misused.
The Geneva framework in three words, and why small peaceful states are its truest constituency. 1 Sep 2026
Case notes on current conflicts, measured against the treaty text.
The Region’s Statutes
Caribbean legislative developments. What the region’s parliaments passed, what it changes, and who it reaches — tracked jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
A running ledger of new Acts and amendments across CARICOM states.
Notes on Guyana and Grenada — the two bars where this column is admitted.
From the Drafter’s Desk
First-hand accounts of writing national law — how a bill becomes an Act, from someone who has held the pen.
What a drafter owes the reader of a statute: clarity, and nothing hidden in the commas.
The room where a definition clause gets argued — and why it matters for years after.
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